On the topic of fireflies, these pics are amazing tinyurl.com/abynx9s9

Gene expression involves thousands of proteins that bind DNA, yet comprehensively mapping these is challenging. We developed ChIP-DIP – a method for simultaneous, genome-wide mapping of hundreds of DNA-protein interactions in a single experiment. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Our work revealing a tug-of-war between PRDM9 and promoter-like features in directing recombination in vertebrates, now out at science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…! For a thread, see:

Here’s the new Science Magazine article from the @molly_przew lab, featuring Athanasia from The Milinkovitch-Tzika lab. Corn snake pedigrees generated by Athanasia reveal that both PRDM9 and promoter-like features specify the location of recombination events 🐍 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

USC are being worse than cowardly. They're not abandoning a commitment to free speech because they're worried about public safety. They're doing this because they're worried about offending donors.

Joint statement by the Barnard-Columbia chapters of the AAUP regarding the mass suspension of students. Currently at least 100 students have been suspended, with more apparently in process.

Statement from Columbia and Barnard faculty about the arrests on campus.

Keith Gessen Here's a link to the petition from AAUP Columbia University Chapter for members of the Columbia/Barnard community to add their names to this statement: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Strong condemnations by professors this afternoon Columbia University. Here’s a speech by Christopher Brown, a professor of history, who says the university and president Minouche Shafik made a mistake calling in NYPD to arrest pro-Palestinian protestors last week 🧵

New preprint! We examine the carotenoid composition, genetic architecture, and evolutionary history of bill color evolution in an Australian songbird called the long-tailed finch with two hybridizing subspecies that differ prominently in this trait. tinyurl.com/yc276pce

New year, new beginnings! I am absolutely delighted to share that I have joined @HarvardMed @MGH_RI @BroadInstitute to start my research group in Boston in January 2025! 🎉🧬🔬#NewPI #AcademicTwitter #NextChapter (1/7)

Modern GWAS can identify 1000s of hits but it can be hard to turn this into biological insight. What key cellular functions link genetic variation to disease? I'm excited to present our new work combining associations + Perturb-seq to build interpretable causal graphs! A🧵

longcallD is a new variant caller for genomic long reads. It jointly calls phased small and structural variants. Single binary, one command line for the whole process. Comparable accuracy to mainstream callers. Great work by Yan Gao. github.com/yangao07/longc…

Oof, just realized that this July is the 10 year anniversary of the release of Bioinformatics Data Skills. Writing my book was one of the most fun, difficult, and rewarding things I’ve done. Can’t believe it’s been a decade; now I feel old 🥲

bsky.app/profile/50501n… NYC, it’s time to take to the streets again. We’re joining over 40 cosponsors to protest authoritarianism, and march for a planet where we place people over profit. 📅 Saturday, April 19 ⏰ 12pm 📍 Bryant Park We’ll see you in the streets.